by VI Clarke (Author), Leona Melnyk (Author)
Ideas and activities will motivate your students to become poetry masters, when writing limericks, cinquains, haiku, mysteries, tall tales, fairy tales, and many more.
Creative writing actives provide a refreshing approach to teaching the standard forms of story writing.
Includes:
12 poetry activities
24 story writing activities
Poetry
l. Poetic Expression
2. Echoic Words
3. A Treasure of Similes
4. Starring Metaphors
5. Personification
6. Haiku
7. Cinquains
8. Limericks
9. Concrete Poetry
10. Rainbow Poetry
11. Parodies
12. Poems a Poppin'
Creative Writing
l . The Elements of a Good Story
2. Fairy Tales
3. Adventure Stories
4. Fables
5. It's a Mystery To Me
6. Tall Tales
7. A Picture Story
8. Animal Stories
9. A S-M-A-S-H-ing Story
10. A Star is Born
11. The "Tall" and the "Short" of It
12. Sailing, Sailing
13. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
14. Cook Up a Story
15. From Dull to Dazzling Descriptions
16. A "Tree"-mendous Story
17. A Chinese Mystery
18. Tuned - In
19. Creative Sentences
20. Sock it to Me
21. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
22. The Big Scoop
23. Great Beginnings
24. An Inquiring Mind